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American psychologist

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Elliot Aronson is an American psychologist who has carried out experiments on the theory of cognitive dissonance, and invented the Jigsaw Classroom, a cooperative teaching technique that facilitates learning while reducing interethnic hostility and prejudice.

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2006William James Fellow Award
1998APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology
1981Guggenheim Fellowship
1980Donald T. Campbell Award
AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Elliot Aronson is an American psychologist who has carried out experiments on the theory of cognitive dissonance, and invented the Jigsaw Classroom, a cooperative teaching technique that facilitates learning while reducing interethnic hostility and prejudice. In his 1972 social psychology textbook, The Social Animal, he stated Aronson's First Law: "People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy", thus asserting the importance of situational factors in bizarre behavior.

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